Example sentences for: calling

How can you use “calling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While calling a nationally televised address "the most likely choice," the WP says that some Clinton's lawyers advocate a written statement instead.

  • For more than a year, Clinton's surrogates have been calling Starr an "out-of-control" prosecutor.

  • More than 100,000 are homeless and 5,000 to 25,000 are feared dead in what most are calling the worst natural disaster in the country's history.

  • And if you want to go way back: In 1934, the Cannon family averted labor unrest by calling in the National Guard and decorating the tops of their factories with machine guns and barbed wire.

  • Obituaries of the author of Naked Lunch highlight his importance as a countercultural role model, calling him "the non-conformist's non-conformist" (the Boston Globe ) who "inspired a who's who of pop culture" ( USA Today ). They dwell on the artists (Beats, punk rockers) who embraced Burroughs as a guru, and retell bizarre anecdotes from his life (he shot his wife accidentally, slept with little boys, and hawked his typewriter to buy heroin).


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